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Definition of Thousand-fold
1. Adverb. By three orders of magnitude. "This poison is a thousand-fold more toxic"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thousand-fold
Literary usage of Thousand-fold
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... thü he were a thousand fold my brother. Which that ] never doen shall eft for
other, " That is to say, foi thee am I becomen, ..."
2. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"Breach of privilege! complained of, and practised by the House of Commons in a
thousand-fold degree. 1049. Charles utterly unprepared for war. ..."
3. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"shoulders, and would scamper to turn the sheep when they inclined to stray whither
they should not; and then arose a thousand-fold bleating, not unpleasant ..."
4. Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; Or, The Branded Hand by Frances Harriet Green (1858)
"It It the African Simao—He curies a Cable—He plunges into the Sea—Struggles with
Death—Dangers terrible and thousand-fold—After many Miraculous Escapes ..."
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